Latino Fashion Week: Kick-Off Event
Latino Fashion Week was celebrated with the sounds of salsa and cumbia at Block 37 on State Street. The theme of the night was, “Made by Latinos for everyone.” A unique display of local and international designers showed off their unique, contemporary and traditional designs that reflect Latino culture. The array of talent was refreshing […]
ZAMRIE does fashion for (storm) relief
The cute ivory skirt with a blue, red, and gold plaid print and tempting “on sale” tag, could be dressed up or down, and Ashley Zygmunt, the creative mind behind the maker of the skirt, Chicago label ZAMRIE, exclaims, “nobody understands that skirt! Only an editor at Vogue really got it.” For her Fall 2012 […]
Fashion in Chicago: Checking In With Julie Hillery
When Julie Hillery was in college, many of her instructors had no real-world experience in the fashion industry, but as an instructor with one foot in the professional world and the other in teaching, Hillery does her best to help her own fashion students get ready for life after college. The opportunity to share her […]
Stella Blue Designs Boutique
Angela Gianfrancesco, executive designer and owner of Stella Blue Designs, says she used to play with her grandmother’s jewelry tower while growing up in St. Louis. She recalls coming upon a box of jewelry a neighbor had thrown away and finding a spinning ballerina surrounded by piles of shiny jewelry. “One man’s trash is another […]
Haute Tech Brings Science Fiction into Fashion
Is there any room for fashion in technology and can technology be fashionable? Thanks to movies such as “Revenge of the Nerds,” a certain stigma is attached to the word technology that instantly evokes an image of flooded trousers, pocket protectors and intense glasses frames. The current “hipster” trend does a wonderful job recreating Robert […]
Sexy Sells Not the Message for Everyone Today
Five years ago, catching sight of chiseled naked men plastered on shopping bags carried by strutting adolescent girls was not an uncommon view in Chicago. Now, these once iconic Abercrombie & Fitch (A&F Co.) bags are being replaced by PINK ones instead. There was a time when A&F’s sexy advertisements and half-dressed models attracted endless lines […]
Fashion World: Hard Work, Long Hours and Great Style
Omar Villalobos discovered as a young boy that he could change his mood by changing his clothes. “I love the fact that you can convey your emotions through something physical,” said Villalobos. Majoring in fashion business at Columbia College Chicago, Villalobos says he has always had a passion for fashion. He also found it curious […]
Fashion Focus 2012: Anna Fong Runway Steals Hearts
The cocktail hour may have lasted two hours, but Anna Fong’s runway show, “Queen of Hearts,” at the Radisson Blu hotel, Sunday, Oct. 21, was the sweetest 30-minute ending to Fashion Focus Chicago. Sure, the show seemed a little skimpy, because of an enjoyable – and, very uncommon to most of Chicago’s fashion week – […]
Next Fashion Goes to the Dogs
Fashion went to the dogs, or at least benefitted dogs and pets in general at this show. The choruses of barking and cooing from attendees, a few of them dogs — or should I say models — erupting at Tuesday’s Next Fashion Chicago show wasn’t the only thing that added a touch of crudeness to […]
